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Jacques Demy: French New Wave
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Jacques Demy (1931 - 1990) emerged as part of the French New Wave, yet it was immediately clear that he diverged from his contemporaries stylistically. As depicted in the biopic Jacquot de Nantes directed by his wife Agnès Varda, Demy had been enthralled by cinema even as a child, and this feeling of whimsy translated into his films. While some of his critics have dismissed this as mere naïveté and nostalgia, it is truly a sense of lyricism and grace that sets him apart from other New Wavers. more
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Jacques Demy's romantic, melodramatic films - full of songs and fairy-tale story lines - dispelled the notion that cinema had to be lifelike. David Thomson celebrates the dreamer of the French new wave
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